tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post2717063620914730554..comments2017-09-26T17:01:33.054-05:00Comments on Althouse: "We were in this town in northern Manitoba where polar bears literally will walk down Main Street."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-54820371939725137552013-02-03T20:21:56.558-06:002013-02-03T20:21:56.558-06:00How many lefty readers had a fit of the vapors whe...<i>How many lefty readers had a fit of the vapors when they read that line?</i><br /><br />That made me laugh. Times have changed so much when I was in college at Columbia in the sixties. I kept a .22 rifle in my dorm room in those days and shot on the rifle team. <br /><br />I forgot all about it until I went back to Columbia 10 years ago, idly looked at a glass trophy case and happened to see my name. <br /><br />I hope no one in the school administration notices it. These days they&#39;d probably retroactively revoke my degree.<br /><br />Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10438099877519107411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-25769282915237342302013-02-03T12:18:06.347-06:002013-02-03T12:18:06.347-06:00I know where the polar bears are going.
They are ...I know where the polar bears are going.<br /><br />They are falling off <a href="http://youtu.be/RLt0myO8XsA" rel="nofollow">planes.</a>kentuckylizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08110491371985845560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-51199942444112497032013-02-03T12:06:21.394-06:002013-02-03T12:06:21.394-06:00Here you go Frederson, you dumb ass, from National...Here you go Frederson, you dumb ass, from National Geographic <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070910-polar-bears.html" rel="nofollow">Most Polar Bears Gone By 2050, Studies Say</a>.<br /><br />Quote: <i>&quot;If we don&#39;t change the path that we&#39;re on now, then it will be too late,&quot; she said. &quot;Polar bears will become extinct.&quot; </i> DADvocatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04621021178600799126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-45681888999115238482013-02-03T11:55:34.140-06:002013-02-03T11:55:34.140-06:00Freder Frederson said...
How many lefty readers ha...Freder Frederson said...<br />How many lefty readers had a fit of the vapors when they read that line?<br /><br />Probably very few.<br /><br />And the reason there are more polar bears now than forty years ago is that hunting ceased in the early seventies<br /><br />http://polarbearhunting.net/<br /><br /><br />Uh. No.<br /><br /> The concern is that if the loss of sea ice continues, polar bear populations will be threatened.<br /><br />You know polar Bears estivate, right?<br />Rustyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00938263272237104128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-39873932873585457672013-02-03T11:53:01.908-06:002013-02-03T11:53:01.908-06:00Freder: I think if you check you&#39;ll find that ...Freder: I think if you check you&#39;ll find that the tribes have never stopped hunting polar bears; they have their own regulations and how and whether they enforce them is up to them. Canada allows hunting of polar bears by non-natives only with a licensed First Nations guide w/ a very costly tag. Same rule may run in Alaska ... I seem to recall a bizarre situation a few years back where a properly licensed hunter with a properly credentialed NA guide shot a bear designated for him by the guide, then the Fish and Wildlife people necropsied it and announced that while it was superficially indistinguishable from a polar bear it was nevertheless a polar bear/grizzly bear hybrid and as such illegal under the tag, and tried to put the guy in prison for 10 years w/ a $50K fine by way of insult to injury. Took years to work out.Megaerahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17018161469321132527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-29757163965487720352013-02-03T11:28:45.590-06:002013-02-03T11:28:45.590-06:00In Longyearbyen, the capital of Spitsbergen, polar...In Longyearbyen, the capital of Spitsbergen, polar bears are so common and so aggressive that it is illegal to walk outside the built-up parts of town without a rifle. If you don&#39;t have one of your own you can rent one at the police station for a small fee.<br /><br />Peterironrailsironweightshttp://ironrailsironweights.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-24147106753823253992013-02-03T11:17:58.102-06:002013-02-03T11:17:58.102-06:00How many lefty readers had a fit of the vapors whe...<i>How many lefty readers had a fit of the vapors when they read that line?</i><br /><br />Probably very few.<br /><br />And the reason there are more polar bears now than forty years ago is that hunting ceased in the early seventies. <br /><br /><i>Polar Bears!? B, B, B, But, But But, I thought they were all extinct because of Global Warming! The MSM told me so! </i> <br /><br />You are just making shit up if you seriously believe that the mainstream media has said polar bears are extinct. The concern is that if the loss of sea ice continues, polar bear populations will be threatened. Spending a season among one of the greatest polar bear populations in the world and writing an amusing travel book about it, hardly demonstrates the concerns of serious scientific researchers are unfounded. Freder Fredersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05532037150775230830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-51051780360908357932013-02-03T11:03:13.937-06:002013-02-03T11:03:13.937-06:00A variation of the &quot;any port in a storm&quot;...A variation of the &quot;any port in a storm&quot; rule. Ambrosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12186326715874648232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-14990108643309331822013-02-03T11:02:29.916-06:002013-02-03T11:02:29.916-06:00This is called Adventure with Dad...
True -- an a...<i>This is called Adventure with Dad...</i><br /><br />True -- an above average dad in the careless but fun department. He&#39;s like Clark Griswold.Sorunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01024561849195222416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-58197622085361209182013-02-03T11:02:19.586-06:002013-02-03T11:02:19.586-06:00Oso Negro said...
All you have to do is stand bet...<i>Oso Negro said... <br />All you have to do is stand between a bear and your family one time armed with nothing but a rock and you will be a zealous advocate of firearms.</i><br /><br />Says the man whose handle means &quot;black bear&quot; in Spanish! :-)<br /><br />Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16736461252925227611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-68852297997605539432013-02-03T10:59:40.633-06:002013-02-03T10:59:40.633-06:00... and a bunch of wildlife conservation officers ...... <i>and a bunch of wildlife conservation officers will come by in a truck with a bunch of guns</i>.<br /><br />How many lefty readers had a fit of the vapors when they read that line?Big Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15831645119853118904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81353464414260337892013-02-03T10:59:32.837-06:002013-02-03T10:59:32.837-06:00... and a bunch of wildlife conservation officers ...... <i>and a bunch of wildlife conservation officers will come by in a truck with a bunch of guns</i>.<br /><br />How many lefty readers had a fit of the vapors when they read that line?Big Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15831645119853118904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-33818288023051795512013-02-03T10:44:57.018-06:002013-02-03T10:44:57.018-06:00Sorun said...
&quot;The guy uproots his family......Sorun said... <br />&quot;The guy uproots his family...&quot;<br /><br />C&#39;mon his family consists of himself, his wife, and three young kids. This is called Adventure with Dad, beats getting expelled from school for drawing a &quot;gun&quot; on a piece of paper.<br />elkh1http://elkh1.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-62734064617668410432013-02-03T10:38:08.938-06:002013-02-03T10:38:08.938-06:00When I lived in Alaska we had a method for taking ...When I lived in Alaska we had a method for taking care of polar bears. You dig a hole in the ice, and spread peas all around it. When the polar bear comes to take a pea, you kick him in the ice hole.Tyrone Slothrophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12304508836038921013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13741705504481534252013-02-03T10:37:46.409-06:002013-02-03T10:37:46.409-06:00&quot;People use what they call Churchill welcome ...<i>&quot;People use what they call Churchill welcome mats, which is a piece of plywood laid down in front of the door or leaned up against the door with hundreds of nails sticking out so that when the polar bear comes up to pad across your porch, he&#39;s going to get a paw full of sharp nails.&quot;</i><br /><br />I&#39;d love to know how many people mistakenly step onto those.<br /><br />Peterironrailsironweightshttp://ironrailsironweights.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90731826436609057282013-02-03T10:37:33.587-06:002013-02-03T10:37:33.587-06:00Cedarford: Churchill may be geographically remote,...Cedarford: Churchill may be geographically remote, but it doesn&#39;t exactly fit the rather patronizing &quot;boonie&quot; description you&#39;ve assigned it. It used to be a bustling port with extensive freight and grain facilities, rail connections with Thompson and lots of shipping in and out of the Northern Interior. A lot of that has gone, dried up now, and the facilities linger on more derelict than usable, but you can see what the town used to be. And in the grand old spirit of using the lemons you&#39;ve been handed to make lemonade, they&#39;ve taken the most dangerous carnivores on earth, which traverse their town twice yearly and hang around like lethal delinquents -- greatly affecting public safetly and freedom of movement, BTW -- and exploited the lunacy which is polar bear faddism to the absolute max. Good on them, say I, but don&#39;t mistake a pragmatic decision to literally not kill the goose that lays the golden egg of ecotourism with a touchy-feely hug-the-poley instinct. They know exactly how dangerous the damn things are, and the precautions they take to protect themselves ought to give you some hint of that.Megaerahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17018161469321132527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34019749480902384892013-02-03T10:36:57.155-06:002013-02-03T10:36:57.155-06:00&quot;...because you don&#39;t want to be dressed ...&quot;...because you don&#39;t want to be dressed as something white in the darkness when there&#39;s a bunch of guys with guns looking for polar bears.&quot;<br /><br />The KKK never really caught on up there.Bob Boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14217663230833386582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-68682055845279394112013-02-03T10:23:01.792-06:002013-02-03T10:23:01.792-06:00Spent a few days in Churchill waiting for the Musk...Spent a few days in Churchill waiting for the Muskeg Express (the sleepers are laid on soft Arctic substrate so the &quot;express&quot; never gets much over 25 mph). Even in summer all those years ago you could tell that a major part of the town&#39;s livelihood revolved around polar bear tourism (mid to late 90&#39;s), and there was an amplitude of bears back then, so no, this guy&#39;s research skills do not impress. What should/does impress anyone who canoes the rivers in the Hudson Bay watershed is that when the ice melts the bears all go ... inland! upriver, prowling the muskeg flats and river bottoms looking for seal, caribou, fish, and the occasional canoer to round out their summer diet. Being exclusively carnivorous, a fact we all took very much to heart on that trip. We had no problems, but an unarmed group of 4 who were being methodically stalked by 2 adult bears had to be evacuated by helicopter to Churchill and lost everything when the bears ravaged their campsite by way of compensation for THEIR loss.Megaerahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17018161469321132527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61815166680135012882013-02-03T10:11:08.267-06:002013-02-03T10:11:08.267-06:00Oh shoot. For a second I thought this was the Gats...Oh shoot. For a second I thought this was the Gatsby sentence of the day.Leslie Graveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02264542707492009746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-43171786624953697272013-02-03T10:06:45.382-06:002013-02-03T10:06:45.382-06:00Obviously Zac Unger is perpetrating a huge hoax up...Obviously Zac Unger is perpetrating a huge hoax upon us. Everyone knows there are hardly any polar bears left and those are floating around hopelessly on a piece of ice.DADvocatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04621021178600799126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-24353388112710979022013-02-03T10:03:35.414-06:002013-02-03T10:03:35.414-06:00He ALSO calls BS on all the &quot;climate-warming-...<i>He ALSO calls BS on all the &quot;climate-warming-on-the-road-to-extinction-of-polar-bears&quot; crap..)</i><br /><br /><br />as I understand it, Polar Bears and Grizzlies are almost exactly the same at the DNA level, just some color variations. Apparently the ranges overlap and depending on climatic conditions over the last several hundred thousand years, the bears change color back and forth. <br /><br />hell, we see that in birds over a hundred years. urban swallows for example. The Drill SGThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16394309533144027391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-50008797469419311892013-02-03T10:03:01.022-06:002013-02-03T10:03:01.022-06:00TIME Magazine mistakenly reported that polar bear ...TIME Magazine mistakenly reported that polar bear populations are shrinking due to being forced in the water by the receding ice cap.<br /><br />What government-funded scientists actually found is that male polar bears suffer from &quot;shrinkage&quot; due to cold water.EDHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15002449963597087316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-88261903057038369152013-02-03T09:58:58.387-06:002013-02-03T09:58:58.387-06:00I have seen bears walking the streets of Montreal....I have seen bears walking the streets of Montreal.<br /><br />They even have a bear week.<br /><br />Ptown too-you can&#39;t swing a cat without hitting a bear.Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09505398901816313803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67361381387224436242013-02-03T09:56:48.131-06:002013-02-03T09:56:48.131-06:00Well, they could always walk around naked and the ...Well, they could always walk around naked and the bears will just figure it&#39;s another Polar bare.edutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15033144261502435196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-89096571871130387012013-02-03T09:49:26.363-06:002013-02-03T09:49:26.363-06:00Give the author credit that his opinion changes wi...Give the author credit that his opinion changes without ideological pride &quot;fuckin&#39; with his head, telling him to say no!&quot; when he comes in contact with reality. Unlike other lefties, or the free traders, PETA folk, and neocons.<br /><br />These people he writes about are people in the remote boonies. They tend to be practical, &quot;unromantic&quot; people. Like their polar bear solutions...which tend to (1)Beat the NRA Freedom Lover with his Beloved Gun Free to shoot anything he in his minds sees as a threat, with impunity...solution.(2)The only government heroes can save us solution. <br /> <br /><br />Cedarfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00602418702398818596noreply@blogger.com